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Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Welcome to Growing With Proficiency: The Podcast! Are you a World Language teacher who is looking for ideas, strategies, activities, and inspiration to create a World Language class where you and your students enjoy using the language to learn about the world and each other? Do you want to transform your class into an acquisition-driven instruction space where you intentionally provide a ton of comprehensible input?
If you are, you're in the right place.
Let's start this journey together. Head over to IG, and send me a DM @claudiamelliott to let me know what topics you would like me to cover in an upcoming episode.Join my free Facebook community, Growing With C. Also, check out my blog to start discovering some of these ideas and strategies at growingwithproficiency.com
Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Episode 158: How to Boost Target Language Use with Routines, Play, and Student Connections
In this episode of Growing With Proficiency, I’m joined by my friends and fellow educators Annabelle Williamson (La Maestra Loca) and Elissa McLean to share our biggest takeaways from Conference in the Cloud.
We talk about simple, high-impact strategies to help you use more target language in your classroom without adding stress:
- Routines that make Spanish (or any language) the default from day one
- Playful moments that spark joy and engagement—like the Platos game from Will Adams’s Chinese class and Martha Ruiz Yedinak’s What’s in Your Pocket? student job
- Star Student Interviews with tips to keep them fresh, personal, and comprehensible all year long
- Why slowing down, adding repetitions, and remembering what it’s like to be a beginner matters
📚 Resources & Mentions
- Conference in the Cloud — use code CLAUDIA to register
- More about routines here
- Class Jobs with Annabelle Williamson and John Seifer
- Star Student Interview
- TPT Store with Star Student Interview questions for each month
- Growing With Proficiency Blog
- Growing With Proficiency The Spanish Teacher Academy Waitlist
🎧 Listen now to hear the full conversation, plus practical tips you can try tomorrow to increase target language time, build community, and keep your classes joyful and connected.
